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  • Saudi Industrial Production Index down 11.2% in September

    Saudi Arabia’s Industrial Production Index (IPI) fell by 11.2% year-on-year (YoY) in September 2023, extending its downtrend to the fifth successive month.   Data issued by the General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT) showed that Saudi IPI fell to 122.99 points in September, according to the base year 2010, compared to 138.5 points in the year-ago period.   Despite the continued increase in the manufacturing activity, and the electricity and gas supply activity, September’s decline in the mining and quarrying activity directly impacted the general index due to its heavy weight in the index.

  • Oleksandr Usyk seeking February date for Saudi showdown with Tyson Fury

    Oleksandr Usyk is hoping his undisputed heavyweight world title showdown with Tyson Fury will take place in Saudi Arabia in February once the Briton has recovered from a bruising 10 rounds against Francis Ngannou. Contracts were signed in September but a proposed 23 December date in Riyadh has been pushed back to next year following the WBC champion’s near-defeat against former UFC champion Ngannou in a non-title bout late last month. The Ukrainian holds the WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO belts and both he and Fury are unbeaten.

  • Egypt’s economy teeters following Moody’s downgrade

    The New York-based credit rating agency Moody’s downgraded Egypt’s foreign and local currency issuer ratings to Caa1, indicating debt obligations of “poor standing” that are subject to “very high credit risk,” per the firm’s criteria. Moody’s cited Egypt’s persistent foreign currency shortages as well as the government’s "increasingly constrained policy options to rebalance the economy without exacerbating social risk,” according to a press release.

  • Starlink in crosshairs as Iranian security agents hunt down terminals, users

    Iranian state media say a plot by a foreign intelligence service to smuggle Starlink gear to the restive Sistan-Baluchestan Province has been foiled. This comes just weeks after US-based “United Against Nuclear Iran” (UANI) announced an initiative to purchase and deliver Starlink terminals to help Iranians bypass government restrictions.

  • How would a US government shutdown affect the Middle East?

    Viewed from overseas, a US federal shutdown might merely look like a domestic problem created by polarised politicians. But a closure of key federal services could have impacts abroad, too.

  • Netanyahu judicial overhaul faces showdown in Israeli Supreme Court

    Israel's Supreme Court will hear petitions on Tuesday to quash an amendment by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's governing coalition that curbs its very own power, in a historic session which has already inflamed the country's judicial crisis. It is one in a series of appeals that the court will hear throughout September and which go straight to the core of the judicial row that has rocked the country for months, pitting the bench against a government that says it is too interventionist.

  • Salah stays at Liverpool as Saudi transfer window closes

    Throughout the transfer window, Liverpool have been adamant that Salah would not be allowed to leave Anfield after former players Jordan Henderson, Sadio Mané, Fabinho and Roberto Firmino completed deals to Saudi clubs this summer. After Salah scored in a 3-0 win over Aston Villa on Sunday, manager Jurgen Klopp reiterated the club's stance and said the 31-year-old was fully committed to the Premier League club.

  • Saudi traffic deaths down 35%

    Saudi Arabia has seen a significant reduction in the number of traffic accident deaths in the Kingdom. According to a World Health Organisation (WHO) report, the Kingdom saw a 35 per cent reduction during the past five years. The number of road accident deaths decreased from 9,311 in 2016 to 6,651 in 2021, said WHO.

  • After luring Neymar, Mane and a slew of stars, the Saudi transfer window is set to shut

    Ronaldo’s decision in December to head to Al-Nassr has opened the door to a slew of the game’s top players following suit by swapping Europe’s biggest leagues for one that was previously little known outside of Asia. A host of Champions League winners have since made the move, with N’Golo Kante, Sadio Mane, Riyad Mahrez, Roberto Firmino, Jordan Henderson, Fabinho and Aymeric Laporte also taking up the riches on offer.

  • X accused of assisting in Saudi crackdown on dissent

    A revised civil US lawsuit has accused X, formerly known as Twitter, of assisting Saudi Arabia in perpetrating human rights abuses against its users. The legal filing alleges that the network disclosed user data to the Saudi authorities “significantly more often” than to the US, UK and Canada, and ignored "the red flags" of a systemic crackdown on dissent on the platform by Saudi authorities dating from December 2014, when it was infiltrated by three Saudi agents.